It certainly is silly, yes. B.
On 29 August 2013 19:38, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > It's really a bit silly, though -- as far as I can tell the GET requests > against the source DB are only used to keep the source_seq information in > _active_tasks current. > > Adam > > On Aug 29, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The checkpoint interval is now configurable on Cloudant (as of a few >> days ago) as a consequence of either your report or another user. Just >> add "checkpoint_interval": <number> to your _replicate request. If >> your replication is started by CouchDB then this option will not >> currently work. >> >> B. >> >> >> >> On 29 August 2013 19:31, Franck Eyraud <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello list, >>> >>> I didn't find the answer to the following questions using Google : >>> >>> Why does Couchdb send a GET request to the database every 5 seconds while >>> replicating continuously ? Doesn't the replicator use the _change API (with >>> heartbeat functionality) anyway ? And if there is a need to poll aserver >>> alive, 5 seconds seem very often to me. >>> >>> Plus, it seems it adds some fee issues in some cases : >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18254772/hanging-replications-on-cloudant >>> >>> I don't have the issue above yet, but in the case of an application where >>> clients can replicate so that they can run offline, this would result in a >>> loot of requests. Is there a way to avoid this ? To make it less often ? >>> >>> Thank you for your help, >>> >>> Franck Eyraud >>> >>> >>> >
